What do you call the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the road?

[AviatorTom]

The grassy area (blue arrow in picture) between the sidewalk (pavement for the Brits) and the street (road) surface creates a buffer between pedestrians and traffic while also providing room for utilities, drainage systems, street signs, fire hydrants and trees.

Depending on where you are, this area has many names.

What do you call it?

Please vote in the poll, which includes some of the names associated with this area.

Verge

Parkway

Grassy Strip

Tree Lawn

Hellstrip

Right-of-Way

Something Else, please tell

A total of 40 votes were cast: 12 girls and 28 guys. See detailed results

[RavVid]

First of Australia has pavements and we'll look at you funny if you say sidewalk but we'll know what you mean.

We call the bit that the blue arrow points to a nature strip. It is the adjacent home owners responsibility to maintain BUT there is some friction between who gets to choose what bushes can be planted on it which is contradictory with home owner maintenance. Councils see to think they call the shots even though a home owner might prefer a non native ornamental tree.

We'd reserve verge for the wild grassed areas beside a country road. These can be surprisingly deep for some roads because they were sized for driving mobs of cattle or sheep back in the day and rough fodder was important. Town streets were often sized large enough to turn a bullock team in but not the roads leading in which are more a thin strip in a paddock.

Now the divider between lanes which go in opposite directions is most commonly a nature strip with trees that you would have to bulldoze through if you really want to have a head on. We would call those 'nature strips' a median strip or just the median.

I curious what Americans call the later two.

[RavVid]

Thanks for a mho

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s still lawn, but officially it’s easement. You officially own it and are required to maintain it, but the community has unfettered access to it. They don’t need your permission to work on sidewalks, utilities and other such things in and under that area. I also believe most insurance companies refuse to cover damages to that area because it’s considered, for their purposes, community property.
A million million disputes between property owners and their village, township, city or even county have erupted over easement rights and responsibilities.

[FreyaRed]

Dog shit dump. When someone walks with a dog or a dog alone, you can be pretty sure their dog shits on this place. Of course you can wait angry and confront them to put digestive system waste of their dog in plastic bag. But damn, playing psycho because of something like that is futile. Generally is a smell for dogs a better option.

I had some dog shitted on the gravel in front of my house. I cleaned it few times but then I started to put Toilet cleaner with very penetrant Chlorine smell on this gravel and this dog stopped. Jest few drops and it helped.

[katiesmuff]

It's a utility easement, which you care for but legally do not own. It's the space that would be used for underground cables, pipes etc.

[AviatorTom]

@katiesmuff You still own the property that an easement refers to, but the easement gives others (defined in the easement) specific rights to use the property. A common example of an easement in the US is the electric pole line found at the rear of some people's houses, typically on the property line boundary between houses. Each house grants an easement (defined in the property deed history) to the electric utility company to maintain the poles and the lines, as well as granting them access to them. Easements can also be permanent or temporary, with defined start and end dates.

[katiesmuff]

Its electric, gas, cable (which includes phone), and sewer & water. Located from street to 30 feet from street

[Lliam]

We always called in a parkway. I guess it's because it's next to the curb where you park your car.
It belongs to the city but you have to mow it and maintain it. You aren't allowed to plant or place anything in it. The city plants a tree there in front of each house.

[ArrowheadSW]

LOL I don't think I've ever thought of that. If I ever referred to it in the past, I probably said, "The grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street." Hummm...

[OlderAndWiser]

Perineum, or taint.

[AviatorTom]

@OlderAndWiser I don't that is always grassy. 😎

[Curmudgeon]

:D :D :D :D :D

[NoDecision]

The taint. Taint the street and it taint the sidewalk.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

We usually refer to it as the "grassy curb strip" here in the USA.

[MrChinaski]

All I know is the law requires me to maintain it and prohibits me from doing anything useful with it.

[exitseven]

• It is known as a median strip. AKA Medium strip

[AngryCarl3]

UK here. It's called the verge, as in "don't park on the verge!"

[darkcloud1945]

A plain in the ass that I have to mow every Saturday!!!

[purplepoppy]

In the UK any green strip by a road is a verge.

[molonski2]

It's called a " nature strip " in Australia.

[Just_Ken]

Vedge. In the UK

[strateguy632]

hey you! get off "the grass"

[NathanDavis]

my cat's toilet...

[Tamera952]

The curb grass

[Nikki1989]

A nature strip.

[sage2021]

The curb grass area or curb area

[DryGermanGuy]

Public easement.

[Ill_made_Knight]

It's mostly called the parkway around here.

[_Jenny_]

@AviatorTom grass

[_Jenny_]

@AviatorTom also known as the easement

[xawyx-3]

Grassy strip - simple :-)

[rgb008]

Not my property

[Ariesman81Nshiiit]

Boulevard, dog shit alley, no man's land.

[KostasKouvalis]

It's just a "strip of grass"

[ohsheeT]

Island

[queenofcardio]

A grassy area

[OneViewpoint]

Steve.

[TonyMetal___1986]

Grassy strip i guess

[Paige2006]

Grassy strip

[LiamS95]

boulevard

[Anonymous]

Median?

[RFC1872]

Easement.